Hawthorn, Hardwood cuttings ??????....

I have a question :yess::yess::yess:

Hardwood cuttings can you do this with Hawthorn , or are they all grown from seed, the reason I ask I have moved my bees out of the garden (next door now happy) to a 5 acre site put a rail fence along one side and would like to plant a hedge but keep the ££ to the bare minium or nothing would be best.

Lots of pussy willow growing every where as it damp most of the year

Spruce

 

Hi Spruce, apparently it's near impossible to root hawthorn from cuttings, even commercially it's done by growing seed or grafting...

This nursery does sell them very cheap; as little as 29p for a seedling, depends how many you want and what size?;

http://hedging.co.uk/acatalog/product_10280.html

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I think your link is missing 29 pence sounds good , small is fine.


I thought as much but I knew somone would know

Thanks

Spruce

 

OOOOPs :D, just added the link Spruce..:thumb:

 

Glastonbury Thorn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A MIRACLE

 

If you're going to go to the trouble of planting a hedge, you might as well mix in a few other species to make it more interesting. When you factor in the time needed to plant it, weed it, guard it against rabbits (if necessary) and trim it, the cost of the individual plants looks less significant when set against the long term interest of the hedge. If you were to plant say 75% or 80% Hawthorn to keep the costs low, spending a bit more on a mix of other species for the remaining 25% or 20% wouldn't add that much to the overall cost but I think you'd appreciate it in the long term, with a greater range of leaf shapes, flowers and fruit.
E.g. bare root plants of Hazel, Dogwood, Dog Rose, Guelder Rose, Wild Privet, Alder Buckthorn, Hornbeam are hardly expensive.

 

Have a look here ALDI - Sunday Special Buys 13th November 2011

Aldi had some hedging plants last week, 10 packs for £3.99..

They may have some left....

Steve...

 

I looked at those yesterday, but those I saw in store were only about 300mm high and would work out at 40p each.

My local nursery (who are also a major mail order/web supplier) sells them about 3 times that size for the same cost, or perhaps even less depending on how many you're buying:

QUICKTHORN (Crataegus monogyna) (Hawthorn, May, Whitethorn)

 

Yup...but they have other varieties such as cornus, acer rose and beech too...at 40p each.

Steve...

 

You forgot the hazel at Aldi.

but these are bigger and maybe cheaper than Aldi, depending on how many you buy:

HAZEL (Corylus avellana) . Hedging Plants, Trees, Shrubs and Conifers.

The beech are about about the same price, but the field maple at Aldi are probably the best buy there. The dogwood I've previously seen at Buckingham have always been multi-branching, and if those at Aldi are just 300mm twigs like the rest of their bundles of bare rooted stuff it might be worth paying that little bit more for something a year or so more advanced.

I wonder how Aldi have managed to get all their's in when garden centres suppliers won't release their stock because it isn't dormant yet - perhaps it comes from Eastern Europe? Taking Hazel as an example this pic was taken of one locally a few days ago that hasn't lost a single leaf yet:

 

A know a lot of their stuff is German in origin so eastern europe is just a stones throw away..so to speak.

Steve...

 

Our local store has just a few left; Cornus, Forsythia and a couple of Hazel, they've sold like 'hot cakes', to be fair they do look quite good quality and they're quite moist too (considering most plants in Aldi unfortunately dry out very quick as they're not watered) :thumb: